Quotes on Mathematicians

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Author: Carl Gauss

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

Author: Charles Hermite

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

Author: Stephen Kleene

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Author: Felix Klein

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Author: Thelonious Monk

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Author: Henri Poincare

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

Author: Henri Poincare

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Author: Henri Poincare

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

Author: Andrew Wiles